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Quotes About Desire

masturbated to thoughts of having moist slapping intercourse with Darlene
~ David Foster Wallace
With words and tears she has amputated something form me. I gave her the intimate importance of me, and her bus pulled away, leaving something key of mine inside her like the weapon of a bee. All I want to do now is drive very away, to bleed.
~ David Foster Wallace
As everyone is well aware, it is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.
~ David Foster Wallace
desire is the sugar in human food.
~ David Foster Wallace
That you can all of a sudden out of nowhere want to get high with your Substance so bad that you think you will surely die if you don't, and but can just sit there with your hands writhing in your lap and face wet with craving, can want to get high but instead just sit there, wanting to but not, if that makes sense, and if you can gut it out and not hit the Substance during the craving the craving will eventually pass, it will go away
~ David Foster Wallace
Then in such a case your temple is self and sentiment. Then in such an instance you are a fanatic of desire, a slave to your individual subjective narrow self's sentiments; a citizen of nothing. You become a citizen of nothing. You are by yourself and alone, kneeling to yourself.
~ David Foster Wallace
That you can all of a sudden out of nowhere want to get high with your Substance so bad that you think you will surely die if you don't, and but can just sit there with your hands writhing in your lap and face wet with craving, can want to get high but instead just sit there, wanting to but not, if that makes sense, and if you can gut it out and not hit the Substance during the craving the craving will eventually pass, it will go away — at least for a while.
~ David Foster Wallace
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. It just did it way more well than wisely
~ David Foster Wallace
With words and tears, she has amputated something from me. I gave her the intimate importance of me, and her bus pulled away, leaving something key of mine inside her like the weapon of a bee. All I want to do now is drive very away, to bleed.
~ David Foster Wallace
Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you even hope to love what you can't grab onto.
~ David Foster Wallace
Perversamente, a menudo es más divertido querer algo que poseerlo
~ David Foster Wallace
He knows, now, that nearly everything you call yours in the world can be taken away from you by other people, assuming that they want it enough.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fear and desire are already married. Freely. One's impaled the other since B.C. What you're scared of has always been what moved you. And where you're heading has always been your real end - your desire.
~ David Foster Wallace
That what unlocks you, even today, is what you want to want. In what you value. And what you value's married to those certain things you just won't do . And here's a cliché that's earned its status as a cliché: whether you're free or locked up depends, all and only, on what you want. What you have matters about as much as the color of your sky. Or your bars.
~ David Foster Wallace
Oh, Christ, why do you have to grow up into a life like this one? Why do you ever have to want women, want power, make money, make love, keep up a front, sell the act, suck around some booking agent, get gypped on the check—?
~ Unknown
Le persone muoiono dalla voglia che qualcuno gli predica il futuro e tu li rincuori. Che diamine, dai loro qualcosa da desiderare e in cui sperare. È quel che fanno i predicatori la domenica. Tra essere un'indovina e un predicatore, la differenza è poca, per come la vedo io.
~ Unknown
He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Isidor thought for a moment he had gone mad, and that he wished his valet to cut his throat.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
When men of a certain sort, ladies, are in love, though they see the hook and the string, and the whole apparatus with which they are to be taken, they gorge the bait nevertheless—they must come to it—they must swallow it—and are presently struck and landed gasping.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
And so William was at liberty to look and long: as the poor boy at school who has no money may sigh after the contents of the tart-woman's tray.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Love gives every gift whereby we long to live: Love takes every gift, and nothing back doth give.
~ William Morris
Cuando la vida no nos da a tiempo lo elemental, tal vez ya no nos saciaremos con nada, y lo nuestro será la búsqueda eterna de lo que no existe.
~ William Ospina